Ruminations
OF THE DAY
July 22, 2024
QUOTE
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
BIRTHDAYS
1925 – Joseph Sargent, Actor, director, and producer
1934 – Louise Fletcher, Actress
1947 – Albert Brooks, Actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter
1947 – Don Henley, Singer-songwriter and drummer
1955 – Willem Dafoe, Actor
1964 – David Spade, Actor, producer, and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1832 – Napoleon II, French emperor
1934 – John Dillinger, Gangster
1967 – Carl Sandburg, Poet and historian
2008 – Estelle Getty, Actress
ON THIS DAY
1598 – William Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice, is entered on the Stationers’ Register. By decree of Queen Elizabeth, the Stationers’ Register licensed printed works, giving the Crown tight control over all published material.
1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of North America.
1893 – Katharine Lee Bates writes “America the Beautiful” after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1894 – The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen.
1937 – The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
OF THE DAY ARCHIVE
December 10, 2023
QUOTE
Two things people throughout history have had in common are hatred and humor. I am proud that I have been able to use humor to lessen people’s hatred.
December 9, 2023
QUOTE
When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately – unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.
December 8, 2023
QUOTE
How can a man take a bowel movement with a hundred buffalo rifles a-pointin’ at him?
December 5, 2024
QUOTE
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
December 3, 2023
QUOTE
“My version of that is that I got out of the car and then he went to beating on my fists with his nose.”
December 1, 2023
QUOTE
Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.
November 29, 2023
QUOTE
When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
November 28, 2023
QUOTE
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
November 21, 2023
QUOTE
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.
Voltaire
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
We are all guilty of the good we did not do
The more a man knows, the less he talks.
Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.
